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Amerigo Vespucci

America was named for him

In regard to history, what was a borderland?

An unclear geographical and cultural border.

A significant difference between the Vikings and Columbus was that:

Columbus received much more publicity for his voyages.

Bartolome de Las Casas

Dominican priest who preached against Spanich abuses of Indians

Juan Ponce de Leon

Florida

In 1776, Adam Smith observed what fact about the Western Hemisphere?

Indians had suffered great misfortunes.

Which indigenous group formed the Great League of Peace?

Iroquois

After conquests ended and settlements were built, who stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America?

Peninsulares.

Hernan Cortez

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

What was a difference between Chinese and Portuguese navigation?

The Chinese were not looking to discover new places.

converture

a woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries.

John Cabot

first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497

Patroonship in New Netherland:

meant that shareholders received large estates for transporting tenants for agricultural labor

Vasco de Gam

sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean

The actions of the Pueblo Indians at Santa Fe in 1680 can best be described as:

being assertive.

Portuguese trading posts along the western coast of Africa were called factories because

the merchants were known as factors

A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Strait and the Europeans who crossed the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years later was:

the search for food items.

How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty?

they supported tolerance in religious matters in their colony.

When Europeans arrived, many Native Americans:

tried to use them to enhance their standing with other Native Americans